From 5cae446aaf35170d052a6a3983f9ec3c47668a4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:53:28 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] xargs supports -a on Linux

---
 src/nnn.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/nnn.c b/src/nnn.c
index aa6a6fe8..ec023dfa 100644
--- a/src/nnn.c
+++ b/src/nnn.c
@@ -3098,12 +3098,31 @@ nochange:
 				goto nochange;
 			}
 
-			if (sel == SEL_CP)
-				snprintf(g_buf, MAX_CMD_LEN, "cat %s | xargs -0 -o -%c src cp -iRp src .", g_cppath, REPLACE_STR);
-			else if (sel == SEL_MV)
-				snprintf(g_buf, MAX_CMD_LEN, "cat %s | xargs -0 -o -%c src mv -i src .", g_cppath, REPLACE_STR);
-			else /* SEL_RMMUL */
-				snprintf(g_buf, MAX_CMD_LEN, "cat %s | xargs -0 -o rm -ir", g_cppath);
+			if (sel == SEL_CP) {
+				snprintf(g_buf, MAX_CMD_LEN,
+#ifdef __linux__
+                         "xargs -0 -a %s -%c src cp -iRp src .",
+#else
+                         "cat %s | xargs -0 -o -%c src cp -iRp src .",
+#endif
+                         g_cppath, REPLACE_STR);
+            } else if (sel == SEL_MV) {
+				snprintf(g_buf, MAX_CMD_LEN,
+#ifdef __linux__
+                         "xargs -0 -a %s -%c src mv -i src .",
+#else
+                         "cat %s | xargs -0 -o -%c src mv -i src .",
+#endif
+                         g_cppath, REPLACE_STR);
+            } else { /* SEL_RMMUL */
+				snprintf(g_buf, MAX_CMD_LEN,
+#ifdef __linux__
+                         "xargs -0 -a %s rm -ir",
+#else
+                         "cat %s | xargs -0 -o rm -ir",
+#endif
+                         g_cppath);
+            }
 
 			spawn("sh", "-c", g_buf, path, F_NORMAL | F_SIGINT);